CPI Archive: Andrew Hamilton chats to Declan O’Rourke about birthing album three and slaying the beast that is writers block.
From the age of 13, when an Australian priest handed him his first guitar and said 'play', Declan O’Rourke has always had a song in his head. It was with him during his adolescent years in Australia and when he moved home to Ireland, he was accompanied on the plane by his six-string and a notebook for scribbling ideas. Through all the ups and downs, his one constant was his creativity and his ability to write. In many ways, it was his best friend - a companion who always made him feel better, a brother who would never let him down. Or so he thought. Riding high on a wave of popularity, 2008 should have been another golden year for Declan O’Rourke. From his home in Kinvara, he could survey the world and think - with some justification - that it was his for the taking. Yet just as it all seemed at its most promising, disaster struck. His friend had deserted him. “It was frustrating. It was scary actually. When you are writing all the time for 10 years - averaging about a song a month - and all of a sudden it stops, that’s tough. So you let a few months go by and call it a break and then the time since you’ve written your last song gets longer and longer," he says.
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